"Whether businesses have local, national or global connectivity needs, we are capable of reaching virtually anywhere now that we are on CenturyLink's network; this is great news for our current and future clients."

Eric Barrett, director of network product management at CenturyLink, added: "TerraCom's direct connection to CenturyLink's fibre network connects businesses to approximately 300 data centres, including more than 60 global data centre locations operated by CenturyLink that offer colocation, cloud and managed hosting services. We are pleased to welcome TerraCom Direct and its clients to CenturyLink's growing ecosystem of interconnected data centres and the end-to-end suite of hybrid IT services that help fulfil customers' workload requirements."

This fibre connection will enable businesses to more easily access other TerraCom and CenturyLink solutions, including TerraCom Direct cloud solutions, the CenturyLink cloud platform, or other business continuity and disaster recovery services.